John Royal pastors a large community church in Florida. He was seen as the pillar of the community. Then he opened a twitter account. His church audience loved the idea, that he will be sharing nuggets of wisdom and meeting reminders. Not until, his tweets went from less wisdom to more of what he was thinking at a moment. He began sharing posts about things he saw, food he eats, places he's at and more. It got more weird when he tweeted at 3am, and during one of his sermons. His reputation is now at stake. Because, his followers thinks, he should be reading and praying all the time and sharing what God is showing him. They now think he is addicted to twitter.
Wait a minute, should his reputation ever be at stake for sharing what he was thinking at a moment? From pt 1,we understood the proliferation of sharing and how it has interwoven itself with our daily living. Why then are these church audience holding their clergy man to his reputation?
Do they not know he is human and would be involved in life activities?
This is where I don't get people. We live in a transparent world of technology today, and unless you don't subscribe to it, your life is like an alley, everybody is watching. The Pastor, in my opinion has done nothing wrong to affect his reputation, he only needs to have different accounts, one for religious postings and the other for personal reflection.
Note sharing is the key. Your participation in this social media driven age is dependent on the content you share. If you are afraid to share, or think someone shouldn't share as much as they do, then you re not ready yet.
The future I see is a future with integration of features that provides limitless sharing. A possible Facebook phone is not a suprise, as this will go to enhance and give seamless sharing.
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